As a transformational discipline, DesignOps can deeply change how design orgs operate. To fully achieve DesignOps’ potential, it is critical to apply a structured and systemic approach to significantly maximise impact and ROI to both the design team, the users, and the business.

Knowing how to think DesignOps and how to apply a systemic thinking approach is crucial to ensure the DesignOps practice can deeply transform and influence all aspects of design operations.

This workshop will take you on a journey from developing a custom DesignOps strategy or practice to ensuring its delivery and ongoing assessment. You’ll learn clear methods and techniques to assess the needs of your design team, prioritize initiatives, sequence projects, and measure impact.

• Why does your organisation needs DesignOps?
• Defining DesignOps as a strategic and transformational discipline
• Defining DesignOps’ remit and responsibilities
• Integrating DesignOps within the Design Organisation
• Setting the vision for your DesignOps practice
• DesignOps for YOUR organisation: understanding your organisation
• Mapping the internal stakeholders
• Mapping the x-functional stakeholders by functions and role
• Analyse existing engagement models and opMechs
• Understand your Design teams
• Assess existing ways of working for the Design teams
• Assess tools ecosystem
• Assess teams’ health
• Creating and executing the roadmap
• Defining the priorities
• Define metrics
• Change management
• System thinking

• Define a credible result-driven DesignOps roadmap
  
• Prioritise and sequence strategic initiatives
  
• Identify the metrics and KPI of your practice
  
• Quantify the impact of your practice on several dimensions
  
• Demonstrate the business impact of Design and DesignOps
  

• This is an interactive workshop with group exercises, discussions, and hands-on activities.
• In a blend of lectures, conversations, and tasks, participants will experience the challenges and opportunities of this new exciting discipline.